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Mahendra K. Verma
PhD (University of Maryland)
Professor, Department of Physics
FB-472,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Nonlinear Physics, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, Astrophysical Fluid and Plasma Dynamics, Turbulence
Education
B. Tech. (IIT Madras)
PhD (University of Maryland, USA)
Selected Publications
M. K. Verma, Anisotropy in Quasi-Static Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Rep. Prog. Phys., 80, 087001 (2017)
M. K. Verma, A. Kumar, and A. Pandey, Phenomenology of buoyancy-driven turbulence: recent results, New J. Phys., 19, 025012 (2017).
M. K. Verma, Statistical theory of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Phys. Rep., 401, 229-380 (2004).
O. Debliquy, M. K. Verma, and D. Carati, Energy fluxes and shell-to-shell transfers in three-dimensional decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Phys. Plasmas, 12, 42309 (2005).
M. Chandra and M. K. Verma, Flow reversals in turbulent convection via vortex reconnections, Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 114503 (2013).
A. Kumar, A. G. Chatterjee, and M. K. Verma, Energy spectrum of buoyancy-driven turbulence, Phys. Rev. E, 90, 023016 (2014).
M. K. Verma, S. Manna, J. Banerjee, and S. Ghosh, Universal scaling laws for large events in driven nonequilibrium systems, Europhys. Lett., 76, 1050 (2006).
A. Pandey and M. K. Verma, Scaling of large-scale quantities in Rayleigh-Bénard convection, Phys. Fluids, 28, 095105 (2016)
Book Published: M. K. Verma, Introduction to Mechanics, Second Edition, Universities Press, Hyderabad (2016).
Awards & Fellowships
Swarnajayanti fellowship, 2006
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Teachers Award, 2016.
Associate of International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (2004-2009).
Member of Program Advisory Committee of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India
Member of the Astrophysics and Physics Application Group under the National Supercomputing Mission
Research Group
- Ph. D. students: Anando Chatterjee, Shaswat Bhattacharya, Satyajit Barman
- Postdocs: Abhishek Kumar
- Project students: Roshan Samuel, Mohammad Anas
- Lab staff: Manmohan Dewbanshi
Software Developed
We have developed a general-purpose flow solver named Tarang (synonym for waves in Sanskrit) over past one decade. It is a parallel and modular C++ code with around 1 lacs lines of code length, and it can solve incompressible flows involving pure fluid, Rayleigh–Bénard convection, passive and active scalars, magnetohydrodynamics, liquid metals, etc. Tarang at present scales up to 16,000 processors, and we plan to push it up to 64,000 processors in near future. It is an open-source code and it can be downloaded from http://turbulence.phy.iitk.ac.in. At present, Tarang is being used by several research groups (8 in India, and 3 abroad). This work was supported in part by Swarnajayanti fellowship and Institute support.